By the time Howard Rheingold's "Virtual Reality" was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a "slowly deteriorating" relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor's West Los Angel...
DistroKid, an independent music distribution service that musicians use to put music into online stores and streaming services, has released a new iPhone app that allows its users to upload new music,...
It's widely known that healthcare is expensive in the United States and that patients are looking for better quality of care that is more cost-effective.That kind of care, called "value-based," has be...
Toyota will spend an additional $2.1 billion to build a new battery plant in North Carolina, the latest sign that the automaker is attempting to catch up with an industry that has embraced the move to...
Blink CEO Gil Barak says there have been three distinct periods when it comes to security operations automation. The first required experts to code workflows, taking weeks or months to produce a singl...
Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally hitting end of life. A message on Google's Chromecast firmware support page (first spotted by 9to5Google) annou...
Bluetooth-enabled devices are ubiquitous, but how those devices are used is constrained by the relatively short range provided by Bluetooth technology. Seattle-based startup Hubble Network wants to co...
Cortex, a startup building an internal developer portal that helps engineering teams build better software at scale, today announced a $35 million Series B funding round led by IVP. Craft Ventures, al...
UK-based neobank Monzo has had quite the bittersweet year. The company's full-year financial results for 2022 paint a picture of a business that's growing rapidly, though at the cost of sticky, large ...
Photonic computing startup Lightmatter is taking its big shot at the rapidly growing AI computation market with a hardware-software combo it claims will help the industry level up -- and save a lot of...
Serve Robotics, the Uber spinout that builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats. The Nvidia-backed startup will now deploy up to 2,000 of its cute little ...
Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an "explosion" near the Pentagon.Community Notes, which are user-g...
Look. We're all interested in one. I know it, you know it, Apple certainly knows it. Much as AI was Google's primary focus at I/O and...I don't know -- Windows 11, I guess -- was Microsoft's centerpie...
[photo1]Nadia AsparouhovaIt was the spring of 2016, and I was in the Oval Office, waiting to interview for a job. Only I wasn't in Washington, DC. I was at the headquarters of GitHub, a code hosting p...
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it's harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding.Led by the ...
In December 2022, founder Elon Musk gave an update on his other, other company, the brain implant startup Neuralink. As early as 2020, the company had been saying it was close to starting clinical tri...
After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice:One thing we'd like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, ...
Stories are over -- at least on YouTube, that is. The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting down on June 26, 2023, as the company aims to focus on other key are...
As promised, MoviePass is returning. After last year's Labor Day beta/waiting list launch, the movie theater subscription service is open to all in the U.S. just head of the Memorial Day holiday. Afte...
Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO, but now it looks like Boden who is doing the walking away. The outspoken fo...